History
The site was started by Tessa Lau in 1995. She collected games from SunSITE's Linux games directories, and classic X11 games - for a database of just over 100 games.
In 1998 maintenance was taken over by Bob Zimbinski who ran the site from that point to its closure.
At the time of closure, the database contained well over 2,000 games and game-related items as well as a user rating system, discussion forums, and an IRC channel.
It also provided forums for game developers, and organized several make overs of "almost-there" Linux games such as Lincity.
Hosting was provided by Micheal Simms of Linux Game Publishing and Tux Games which caused shared downtime during late 2010.
On March 25, 2013, it was announced that the Tome would shut down on April 13. The site had gone without updates for several months prior to this announcement. An archived version of the database has been made available, and the happypenguin.org site now links to two different efforts to continue the project.
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